Millie Taylor is Professor of Musical Theatre at the University of Winchester, UK. She is author of Musical Theatre, Realism and Entertainment, among other titles.Dominic Symonds is Reader in Drama at the University of Lincoln, UK. He is co-editor of the Studies in Musical Theatre journal, and author of the forthcoming We'll Have Manhattan: the Early Work of Rodgers and Hart, among other titles.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionPART I: READING TEXTS1. 'A tale as old as time': Narrative Theory2. 'A man who can interpret could go far': Semiotics and Semiology3. 'Razzle dazzle 'em': Reception Theory and the Epic Musical4. 'Life is a cabaret': Cultural MaterialismPART II: INTERPRETING CONTEXTS5. 'You've got to be carefully taught': Orientalism and Musical Theatre6. 'I wanna be a producer': Globalization, Capitalism and Consumerism7. 'What's the buzz?' Meta-narratives and PostlinearityPART III: PERFORMING IDENTITIES8. 'Marry the man today': Feminism and the Performance of Identity9. 'The bitch of living': Youth Cultures, Power, and Sexuality10. 'I am what I am': Sexuality and Queer TheoryPART IV: RETHINKING RELATIONSHIPS11. 'It's the last midnight': Playing with Time and Space12. 'I'm just a Broadway baby': Intertextuality in Music and Lyrics13. 'Dreamgirls will make you happy': The Pleasures of Voice and Body14. 'Make 'em laugh': The Politics of EntertainmentBibliographyIndex.

Millie Taylor is Professor of Musical Theatre at the University of Winchester, UK. She is author of Musical Theatre, Realism and Entertainment, among other titles.Dominic Symonds is Reader in Drama at the University of Lincoln, UK. He is co-editor of the Studies in Musical Theatre journal, and author of the forthcoming We'll Have Manhattan: the Early Work of Rodgers and Hart, among other titles.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionPART I: READING TEXTS1. 'A tale as old as time': Narrative Theory2. 'A man who can interpret could go far': Semiotics and Semiology3. 'Razzle dazzle 'em': Reception Theory and the Epic Musical4. 'Life is a cabaret': Cultural MaterialismPART II: INTERPRETING CONTEXTS5. 'You've got to be carefully taught': Orientalism and Musical Theatre6. 'I wanna be a producer': Globalization, Capitalism and Consumerism7. 'What's the buzz?' Meta-narratives and PostlinearityPART III: PERFORMING IDENTITIES8. 'Marry the man today': Feminism and the Performance of Identity9. 'The bitch of living': Youth Cultures, Power, and Sexuality10. 'I am what I am': Sexuality and Queer TheoryPART IV: RETHINKING RELATIONSHIPS11. 'It's the last midnight': Playing with Time and Space12. 'I'm just a Broadway baby': Intertextuality in Music and Lyrics13. 'Dreamgirls will make you happy': The Pleasures of Voice and Body14. 'Make 'em laugh': The Politics of EntertainmentBibliographyIndex.

Millie Taylor is Professor of Musical Theatre at the University of Winchester, UK. She is author of Musical Theatre, Realism and Entertainment, among other titles.Dominic Symonds is Reader in Drama at the University of Lincoln, UK. He is co-editor of the Studies in Musical Theatre journal, and author of the forthcoming We'll Have Manhattan: the Early Work of Rodgers and Hart, among other titles.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionPART I: READING TEXTS1. 'A tale as old as time': Narrative Theory2. 'A man who can interpret could go far': Semiotics and Semiology3. 'Razzle dazzle 'em': Reception Theory and the Epic Musical4. 'Life is a cabaret': Cultural MaterialismPART II: INTERPRETING CONTEXTS5. 'You've got to be carefully taught': Orientalism and Musical Theatre6. 'I wanna be a producer': Globalization, Capitalism and Consumerism7. 'What's the buzz?' Meta-narratives and PostlinearityPART III: PERFORMING IDENTITIES8. 'Marry the man today': Feminism and the Performance of Identity9. 'The bitch of living': Youth Cultures, Power, and Sexuality10. 'I am what I am': Sexuality and Queer TheoryPART IV: RETHINKING RELATIONSHIPS11. 'It's the last midnight': Playing with Time and Space12. 'I'm just a Broadway baby': Intertextuality in Music and Lyrics13. 'Dreamgirls will make you happy': The Pleasures of Voice and Body14. 'Make 'em laugh': The Politics of EntertainmentBibliographyIndex.